The following answers are provided by members of the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC), an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, the YEC recently launched #StartupLab, a free virtual mentorship program that helps millions of entrepreneurs start and grow businesses via live video chats, an expert content library [...]
Archive | Startup Mentoring RSS feed for this section
Awesome startup communities create ‘Startup Triangle’ in SW Indiana.
The startup scene has really taken off in southwest Indiana over the last several months. Terre Haute, Evansville and Bloomington seem to form a ‘startup triangle’ for the region. For starters, there has been no lack of Startup Weekend events. The first Crane event launched on October 5th, 2012. Bloomington on November 9th, 2012. [...]
Startup Fever Hits Terre Haute
An awesome event took place in Terre Haute, Indiana last weekend and I was fortunate enough to be involved and live to tell about it. During the weekend of Feb. 8th, 2013 over 85 energetic startup enthusiasts, business coaches and local leaders came together in a friendly competition to pitch ideas, form teams, build prototypes [...]
VIDEO Interview with Jonathon Perrelli, Founding Partner at Fortify VC
Jonathon Perrelli founded numerous companies and has been involved with tech and telecomm startups since 1996. But it wasn’t until a few years ago that Perrelli zeroed in on what brings him alive and co-founded Fortify.vc. Fortify is a DC-based tech fund that leverages the proven experience of their network to give our portfolio companies [...]
How Dave Knox and the Brandery Launched 25+ Companies in 3 Years
San Francisco, Boulder, New York City. These are the kinds of cities you expect to hear in a lineup of top cities with startup activity. But there’s something in the water in an old industrial Midwest city. Dave Knox called Cincinnati his home for years and worked with one of the largest companies, Procter & [...]
Designing Your First Startup Office
My mother, whom I love dearly, has always held slightly alternative worldly perspectives. Back in college, when she found out I had cold, she would call me to suggest that, in addition to taking the latest herbal remedy, I make sure I clean the dirty laundry off my floor that was, in her opinion, creating [...]
iPads, Autism and Successful Businesses
Recently, a friend of mine – Joel Manzer – got an iPad. This alone might seem ordinary, however, the means by which he came to do it are pretty cool and a reminder to us entrepreneurs that it isn’t always all about us. Joel gave me a call out of the blue and asked where [...]
Why the only thing some “Entrepreneurs” will invent is excuses
Too often, you meet or read about people who claim to be ‘entrepreneurs’; but, who, in reality, realistically have very little possibility of actually becoming one. Why? Excuses. Chances are, you have used one of the excuses I am about to describe at least once in your life already. It would be a lie if [...]
5 Ways to Leverage University Resources for Your Startup
Can you imagine Silicon Valley without Stanford? Boston without MIT? Great technology ecosystems are built around great universities. The reason is simple; universities are a hotbed of talent, ideas and resources, just waiting to be tapped into. So, how can your startup make the most out of your local university? Our startup, FoundOPS, reaped countless benefits from being [...]
College Hacks: How to Get an Entrepreneurial Experience At Your University
This post was written by Mike Beckwith, a student at Indiana University and regular Verge attendee. He is a Project Coordinator of the Young Entrepreneurs Association at Indiana University Bloomington. He has joined numerous clubs and events for entrepreneurs and has found some real nuggets of gold related to getting the most out of a [...]
Get Social with Verge
Connect and Subscribe w/ these channels:
